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Re:Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowled... by insanitybit on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:43AM (#33622116)
The reality is that the vast majority of software developers do not consider a strict conformance to the 10 OSI criteria as being necessary to apply the term "open source".

Maybe they're all just wrong, but it's worth considering why.

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Re:Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowled... by jimsmart on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:11PM (#33631557)
> the vast majority of software developers do not consider a strict conformance to the 10 OSI criteria as being necessary to apply the term "open source"

[citation needed]

My counter claim, without citation, is that I actually believe (from experience) that the vast majority of 'open source' projects are in fact released under licenses that already comply with the 10 OSI criteria, and are therefore 'approved' OSI licenses. This is easily witnessed by looking at the licenses of the majority of open source projects — or perhaps even just the most popular ones.

That would seem to go against your claim regarding 'most developers'.

But it's not actually a debate about 'most developers', it's about the OSS projects out there, not individual devs, no?

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Re:Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowled... by ted_dunning on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:02AM (#33635864)
Here is a citation for you. 3/4 of the repos on github use MIT, GPL or Apache.

Done and won. Most open source projects (in 2015) use real open source licenses.

https://github.blog/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage-on-...

https://solutionshub.epam.com/blog/post/examining-open-sourc...

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Re:Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowled... by jimsmart on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:18AM (#33638429)
Indeed... MIT, GPL and Apache are all approved OSI licenses and on the list! [0] — Most well known open source licenses are, of course.

Thanks for the citations, appreciated. I was on a mobile device when I made my previous comment, and it would've been fiddly to sort out.

[0] https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical

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